Replacing "-custom" in my New Kernel development configuration

[Arshad Hussain]

On 11-Feb-2015, at 11:18 pm, Vinícius Tinti <viniciustinti at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Wed, Feb 11, 2015 at 3:42 PM, s.rawat <imsaurabhrawat at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Hello,
>> I recently built the 3.18.5 kernel according to instruction on the
>> linuxkernel newbie page .I used /sbin/installkernel script to install the
>> modules and updated the grub.cnf.
>> On a reboot i get option 3.18.5[b]-custom[/b] and booted in.But now since I
>> am modifying the kernel and needed headers in /user/src for the same kernel

Your headers for ‘-custom’ kernel will be under the folder where you have downloaded 3.18.5 kernel.


>> name i am using i.e 3.18.5 , but uname-r gives 3.18.5[b]-custom[/b].I can
>> still install headers with the name 3.18.5 and rename it to 3.18.5-custombut
>> how is there any other way out to fix this.If I could  replace "-custom" in
>> all the places or do I have to do it manually - in grub, all all other
>> places?I dont know how many places it has been reference as "-custom".
>> I might have taken a wrong route i guess :S ! Have I??
> 
> Take a look at CONFIG_LOCALVERSION option.
> 
>> Rgds,S
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